Dhaka, Oct. 23 -- Harold Pinter, a playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, and the most influential modern British dramatist, was born on October 10, 1930, in Hackney, London, UK, son of a Jewish tailor and a working-class upbringing. He was the author of more than 30 plays which were written between 1957 and 2000 and those plays changed the shape of British theatre post-WWII. His work was greatly influenced by Samuel Beckett, an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, short story writer, and a great Modern dramatist.

Modern Drama is "a particular type of drama which depicts modern attributes and shows all the changes that happened on the political, social, economic, religious, and psychological level".

Pinter is widely known among other m...